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• to understand the functional organization governing time and space evolution of such systems and   predict their response to stimuli and perturbations

• to unravel the mechanisms responsible for their emergent properties. 

The main applicative domains of my studies are network biology, biochemistry, biological physics, microbiology, and synthetic biology.

As Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA, I am contributing to the organization and promotion of the scientific events of ACM in the fields of computational biology, artificial intelligence and applied computing.

Pubblication(s) of the last two months

• Lecca, P. (2026). Advanced Statistics and Quantitative Network Biology: an Urgent Convergence Not Without Obstacles and Challenges. In: Paszynski, M., Barnard, A.S., Zhang, Y.J. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2026 Workshops. ICCS 2026. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16786. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-29912-3_14 

• Carpentieri, B.; Velichko, A.; Shams, M.; Lecca, P. Early Prediction of Convergence Outcomes in Parameterized Root-Finding: A Feature-Based Study. Mathematics 2026, 14, 2036. https://doi.org/10.3390/math14122036

• Lecca P, Lecca M and Ihekwaba-Ndibe AE (2026) AI-based methods for the assessment of DNA damage and repair mechanisms. Front. Syst. Biol. 6:1734322. doi: 10.3389/fsysb.2026.1734322

Featured papers 2026

• M. Lecca, M. Gottardi and P. Lecca, A New Image Sharpening Filter based on Gradient and Retinex-inspired Contrast, in IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3617230 

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Special Issues

1. As a Guest Efitor, I invite to submit a manuscript to the Journal

Applied Artificial Intelligence 

for an Article Collection on

Advances in Explainable and Interpretable Artificial Intelligence for Medicine and Healthcare 

Manuscript deadline: 29 March 2026.

Guest editors: Paola Lecca, Bruno Carpentieri, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

2. As a Guest Editor, I invite you to submit a manuscript to the Journal

Frontiers in Bioinformatics 

for the Article Collection on

Methods, Tools and Algorithms in Network Bioinformatics

Guest Editors: Paola Lecca (Free University of Bozen- Bozano, Italy), Hongbao Cao (George Mason University, Fairfax, United States).

Recent editorial activity 

• Big Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence for Medical Sciences , Wiley & Sons, Eds: B. Carpentieri, P. Lecca, 2024

• As a guest editor of Frontiers in Bioinformatics, I announce that the Research Topics Expert Opinions in Network bioinformatics: 2022  has been finalized.

Press and post

Post of Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

AI in Healthcare: Revolutionizing Brain Tumour Detection 

Press release

Joining the dots: How gene regulatory network tools are unearthing drugs, Globaldata, Pharmaceutical Technology, October 4, 2022.